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By Joshua Chiang If there is one thing that I always look out for as an illustrator, it is the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and try new styles. Which is why this year has been pretty awesome thus far. Well for starters, we finally launched our ‘Candid Cambodia’ series of artprints …

In one of the earlier issues of the groundbreaking comic-book series Sandman, an author who has not written another novel since his first and only book became a hit, came into ownership of Calliope, one of the Muses of Greek Mythology. (The Muses were the inspirational goddesses of science, literature and the arts) By holding Calliope captive, …

The following is an extract from a review of Javier's Day in the weekly Phnom Penh arts and entertainment newspaper The Advisor. The book is now being sold at Monument Books Phnom Penh. In Javier’s Day, Singaporean illustrator Joshua Chiang captures the changing nature of family life inside Asia’s most outsized economic powerhouse. At the …

“Joshua Chiang can’t fool me. This is the product of one who has watched too many cartoons and is still playing with his imaginary friends. His characters have been around long before their lines and colours are pressed onto a page. Their endearing, vivid expressions are those of his soul at its various stages of …

- by Joshua Chiang - ('Trackless Paths' the book is now out in Select Books and Kinokuniya in Singapore, as well as available online here) For the past few years I had been pursuing an improvement to my illustrating craft as well as enriching my life spiritually. Trackless Paths is where these two threads meet. …

by Joshua Chiang I thought I'd wrap up the year by bringing one of my pet projects Ronin Rat and Ninja Cat one step closer to completion. Ronin Rat was a concept I came up with somewhere in 2009; it was originally meant to be a animated feature film, and I already had written the script. …

by Joshua Chiang One of the perks of being a regular illustrator for the promotional materials for Singapore Repertory Theatre's children plays is to get to offer your own interpretation of beloved children's fiction character, the latest being the stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. Of course the immediate problem it presents is …

by Joshua Chiang Sometime in September, a new youth magazine started by local publisher Marshall Cavendish called "So What?" featured an interview with me for its 14th issue. You can read it here. Besides the usual questions about what got me into the visual storytelling business, at least half the article was devoted to asking me about …

The past one year has been a very busy period for me. Besides the usual service work, I have been involved in the production of not one but two of Cerealbox's original creative content. One will be out within a few weeks, while the other, our first ebook/ineractive app could be out as early as January …